Crime Statistics for Highbury, London, Islington, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Highbury in September 2024. There were a total of 2779 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Anti Social Behaviour	622
Violent Crime	575
Shoplifting	367
Other Theft	238
Vehicle Crime	221
Theft From The Person	182
Criminal Damage Arson	128
Burglary	112
Public Order	105
Drugs	73
Bicycle Theft	66
Robbery	58
Other Crime	26
Possession Of Weapons	6
All Crime	2779

Map of street level crime incidents in September 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Highbury. This map shows if incidents are evenly distributed over the district or if there are hot spots in certain streets or areas.

Where Police data is not specific to an address for privacy reasons, most roads are represented by 1 to 2 markers or clusters. However, this should be enough to ascertain if the road you live in or are thinking of moving to, is a crime hot spot. The only exception could be where there is a large cluster of a single crime category on a street, as this could but not necessarily be related to multiple incidents at one address.

Crime incidents in neighbouring areas to Highbury

We've taken the ten nearest places to Highbury and ranked them by the number of crime incidents in each. This should allow you to see if Highbury has more crime than other surrounding areas.

Location	Crime Incidents
Haggerston (1.76 miles)	3969
Islington (0.62 miles)	3790
Canonbury (0.88 miles)	3120
Lower Holloway (0.62 miles)	2632
Barnsbury (0.88 miles)	2373
Highbury	2371
Finsbury Park (0.88 miles)	1938
Camden Town (1.39 miles)	1930
Stoke Newington (1.39 miles)	1207
Tufnell Park (1.24 miles)	1169

Where are the most violent places near Highbury?

The category of crime that most concerns people is violent crime. We have taken the ten nearest place to Highbury and ranked them according to the number of violent incidents in the 'best fit' Policing neighbourhood.

Location	Violent Incidents
Haggerston	687
Canonbury	654
Islington	633
Highbury	575
Lower Holloway	564
Barnsbury	438
Tufnell Park	416
Finsbury Park	362
Camden Town	322
Stoke Newington	258

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Highbury?

Every two years the government publishes the Index of Multiple Deprivation. One of those domains is crime, more precisely, how likely you are to be the victim of a what is known as 'personal crime', such as muggings or burglary. The governemnt publish these statitsics down to the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) or in simple geographic terms, a few roads. These statistics are also published on a ward level as an average of the LSOAs in that area. We have taken the average rank and converted it into a more accessble form, a score out of 100. Where the higher the score, the more likely you are in Highbury to be a victim of personal crime. Note that the following score has been generated from the 2019 statistics. At the time of writing, these have not been updated by the government during and since the COVID 19 pandemic.

How does crime in Highbury compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Highbury and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Highbury is ranked #7.

#	Ward	Score
1	St George's	80
2	Canonbury	80
3	St Mary's	79
4	Brownswood	75
5	St Pancras and Somers Town	75
6	Highbury East	74
7	Holloway	73
8	Cantelowes	72
9	Caledonian	69
10	Highbury West	64
11	Barnsbury	64

Which road in Highbury has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Highbury with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around North Road.